THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



The Pine Snake Group, temporarily installed in Hall No. 206, 

 is an excellent example of the modeling and mounting of snakes 

 in their natural surroundings, and, furthermore, well illustrates 

 the protective coloration or marking of animals. Much valuable 

 material in the line of snakes and reptiles has been received from 

 the Zoological Park and is being prepared for exhibition or study. 



LECTURES. 



PUBLIC-SCHOOL COURSE. 



The Tuesday and Saturday evening illustrated lectures to the 

 general public are provided for through co-operation with the 

 City Board of Education. The programme of these lectures 

 from January to April has been as follows : 



January 5. — Mr. Isaac F. Smith, "Literary and Historic 

 Shrines of Boston and Vicinity." 



January 9. — Prof. E. R. Vox Xardroff, " Energy as a Source 

 of Heat." 



January 12. — Mr. Austex T. Kempton, "Evangeline, Land 

 and Poem." 



January 16. — Prof. E. R. Vox Nardroff, "The Expansive 

 Force of Heat." 



January 19. — Mr. Johx Jay Lewis, "The History and Beauty 

 of Old New England." 



January 23. — Prof. E. R. Von Nardroff, "The Conduction 

 and Convection of Heat." 



January 26. — Mr. Johx Hutchisox, "Niagara and the St. 

 Lawrence." 



January 30. — Prof. E. R. Vox Nardroff, "The Three Forms 

 of Matter in Relation to Heat." 



February 2. — Mr. William L. Masox, "Up the Hudson and 

 Mohawk to Niagara Falls." 



February 6. — Prof. E. R. Vox Nardroff, "The Spheroidal 

 State." 



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